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' . .. . 'JUr OUR FLAG. At the recent sinkinz of the war ships at Apia the Captain of neof them ordered the fag unfurled. The men on board another of 42m doomed vessels (greeted it with a cheer, -which was responded to with their last breath Jbj the lo yal Captahi and his men. . ; - .Across the peach-blow sky of spring 7 ' The starnvdart clouds are looming; "With sullen voice the breakers ring, The thunder loudly booming. ' The huddled war ships ride apace, i 1 . Each at her author straining; Black, black, is all of heaven's face; It lightens 'fcwixt the raining. Xike crumpled rose leaves the mist edge The hidden reef enwreathing, " Bat cruel as hell the jagged ledge Beneath those waters seething. On, on they come, the poor dumb things, The storm winds fiercely, driving; At her dread work each breaker sings, For conquest madly striving. "Jl we must die" the leader's voice .Outswe'lled the roar of thunder 1 -"It is our own and solemn choice To die our dear flag under. -"For us to-day the battle field -Is where the seas are lying. "We claim aright we cannot yield, . To glory in our dying." He ceased; upon the topmost mast The Stars and Stripes were floating. The sight is like a trumpet bla3t, And other ship quick noting. Up to the sky there sounds a cheer That starts the echoes flying. Back comes the answer, loud and clear, From gallant hearts, though dying. A moment's 3pace, the waves in brine . Baptiza the flag low lying, , And f torn the breakers comes no sign , Of living or of dying. O flag, dear flag, onca more thy nama As aiways in thy story, Has set a thousand, hearts aflazua For thee and for thy glory. AnrUz B. King, in Harper's Bazar. A FATEFJJli VOYAGE. In the year 1868 I signed papers with "Captain Delano, of the brig Josephine, for a voyage from Sidney, to Auckland . add return. Sha .was an English craft, and was loaded dth a general cargo,and had made many voyages across the New Zealand Sea. The crew, consisted of - Captain, mate, cook and four men before the mast, and every one but the cook was white and spoke English. I was then . eighteen years old and just out of my apprenticeship. I should have had a second mate's berth, but the Josephine carried no such officer. The Captain stood his own watch, and there were oc casions when the mate had to go aloft with the men. Captain Delano was a good sailor and a good -hearted man , ami there was nothing in the grub or the dis- cipline to find fault with. We left Sid ney one morning with a fair wind for the fifteen-hundred-mile voyage, and had any one predicted the queer adventures and the tragedies which were to befall us he would have been looked, on as a lunatic. A portion of the story I am going to tell you appeared in some of the Austra lian papers twenty years ago, but only a portion, and that full of errors. It was only a month ago that I was asked to '.send my affidavit to certain facts to a lawyer at Melbourne, and so the whole aeries of adventures is fresh in my mem ory. : , For the first three days out we had fair winds and a smooth sea, and the brig made fine progress. . At midnight on the third night the wind, shifted, blew up a cquall which" lasted half an hour, and then died away as flat as you please. "We were left rolling on the waves for an hour or two, .but when daylight came the surface - of the sea was without a ripple, while there was not the slightest breath of air moving above. The sun came up like a ball of fire, and the greeneshand aboard .knew that we were in for a calm. It was '"ierrible hot by mid-forenoon, and our . fioomane Captain ordered all hands to Knock oil and make themselves as com fortable as possible. By noon the brig . was like an oven. The decks were so hot that even the cook with his tough feet Iared not walk them unshod. Down in the f o'castle in wastifling, but as it was .worse on deck we had to stand it. . ! It was about noon when the cook, who Iiad gone to theside to throw over some clops, called out to us to come and see the largest shark which human eyes ever beheld. I crawled up from the focastle, Always curious to see one of the monsters " close at hand, but expecting that the cook Bad greatly . exaggerated, and when I looTced over the rail I was astonished. There lay a shovel-nosed shark of such dJnicnsions t.bt T, dared not credit my own eyesight. lie lay psrallel and not i over ten feet away, and when, after -a few minutes, Captain and all hands had roused up-to look at the fellow,, we got his exact length by a tape line along the fcck. 1 He was thirty-two and: one-half feet long, with jaws capable of cutting a bullock in two at one snap. The only ''sign of life he gave was a slight move ment of the eye now and then. He lay -with his great dorsal fin baking in the hat sun, and so near that we could see every little detail. All agreed that he was the largest shark any one "had ever - een, although all of us had sailed in the warm seas, and some of the men had turned away when the cook climbed .upon the rail and said he would stop a little fqar game with the big fellow. He - Aieant by that that he would have a talk with him. I have met numbers of ship's -cooks who claimed to have 'made up" with sharks and were not afraid of -being hurt by them. The cook sat just oppo- .- die the shark's middle, and he had be gun .a sort of chant, when I passed for ward intending to find a missile, and beave it over and scare the monster away. I. had just found an old bit of iron and' ; got back to the rail when there was a splash and a yell. The cook was in the water through some careless move of his. Xfcad my eye on the shark, and his move ments were like lightning. "With one Iir of his tail he slewed himself around, ..... iis greit jaws opened, and I was looking - right down upon him as he took the cook - In clear to the middle and bit him in two mo slick and clean that the upper part of - tlve body rolled ."away from the shark's nose and remained on the surface directly below me. After half a minute it began Jowly to sink, but was not yet out of sight' when I saw the shark seize.it. As he grabbed it he rushed away and we aw him no more. The tragedy "upset us in more ways than n-. Here we were, left without a. cook . at the beginning of the voyage, and there was something m his taking off which i - aroused the superstition of the hands for--ard. I think the Captain felt it as much has we did,, but of course he concealed It as much a possible. All that day we lay roasting ana motionless, and as the sun went down and a light breeze sprang iip every man uttered a heartfelt 'Thank Heaven!" We crowed too soon, however. The breeza. did not push us pver five miles before it tired out, and we j were left as before, the tky full of stars and the sea like a xnirror. -1 was in the mate's watch and cam on-duty at midnight. Indeed, we were all on duty for that matter, as there was nothing whatever j to do and we were sleeping on deck., I was aroused, however, to take the lookout, and I took my seat on the heel of the bowsprit as a matter of form. As we were not moving, no other sailing craft could move, and the few steamers crossing on our line could see our lights and avoid usj Something happened, however, before I had been on duty an hour. The Josephine was rising and falling on the glassy swells, ' and swinging her head to every ;point of the compass by turns, and I was scanning the sea and the-heavens in the most perfunc tory way, when an object suddenly came into view. It was a blacjc spot against the darlcnass, and after rising to' my feet and watching it for a few minutes I made out, as I thought, the dismasted hull of a, small vessel. It was coming down to ward us, and when sure of this ! hailed the mate. He came forward -with the glass, and after a long look he said: "Well, that beats my time1. ' It is the hull of a dkmasted schooner! and stands up high and dry. There's a! lot of raffle around herbows, and I believe a whale is tangled up kx it and towing jthe wreck!" ' He sent me to call the Captain, and in a i few minutes all hands had caught the excitement. The wreck stepped for a while on oux.starboard bow, and not over a quarter of a mile away. Then it crossed our , bows and came down on our port side to the quarter, where it lay so close that every man could see what it was. It was then, at the suggestion of the Captain-, that we raised our Jvoices in a shout to see if anybody was aboard the strange craft. We were answered almost immediately by the barking of a dog, and .the Captain said: ' j . "Thera are men there, arid they may be starving and suffering. 1 Well,' lower a boat and pull out to her." , "Heavens I sir, but you wouldn t think of it!" whitpered. the mate. ' She's being towed by who knows what? ; jSee! There she moves again! And just listen .to that howlingl" j. , It was tru that the hulk was moving. She moved across our stern at slow speed and ranged up on the other quarter, and the dog ceased his barking and sent f orth such mournful howls that every man was upset. ; J "What do vou make outi under-her bows?" asked the Captain of the mate as he handed him the glass after Ion sr look. ' .. ., . ' "Why, sir, there's .the.' bowsprit, the foretopmast, and a big tangle of ropes was the reply. "It looks to me as if all the foremast raffle had somehow slewed around under her bow3, and I'm certain that a whala is tangled up herein. I can see flecks of foam as he churns away, and you can hear a ripple along our side from the sea, he kicks up." . . The dog barked and howled by turns, but we got no other answer , to our re peated shouts. - "Men," said the Captain, as began moving slowly away, the wreck "it's " our plain duty to board that hulkl I could never forgive myself if . I left &ny one to die of starvation. I won't order any one to go, but I'll call for volunteers." Not a sailor responded for a minute. I waited to give the men a chance, and as they hesitated I volunteered. Two others then came forward, and: their ac tion shamed the mate into saying : "Very well, sir. I'll take Jones -and Harris and pull o3 and investigate.!' , Why he left me out I do not know, but I was quietly ignored, andj the two middle-aged men' whose names I have given had the oars as the bqat moved away. The Captain called after the mate to be sure to board the hulk, and if he found her in good condition o cut the raffle loose and report. The wreck had been moving away from us pretty steadily for ten minutes, and as the yawl left us I could hardly make her out. the mate was to show a light when hej boarded her, and for the next half hour we were straining our eyes to catch it. Then we figured that he haid missed the jhulk and was pulling back to us, and although we had out our regular lights, whiph could have been seen for two or three miles, we sent up several skyrockets and burned a flare as further guides. But the hours wore on and brought no tidings, and daylight came we swept the sea in vain for sight of either hulk or boat, j ; A breeze came with the surij And we began a search which lasted all the day without result. The. loss .of three men reduced 'us to sad ' straits. There were, only two working hands, and as a measure of safety we had to get the big sails reefed against what, might Come. The breeze was light, and as we were under shortened sail we, did no cover any great '.distance during the &iy, not over thirty miles. This satisfied us, however, that a 'calamity had occurred.' ) The wreck could not have been over half a mile from us when the yawl pulloCy away. I would jnot take over ten minutes to pull to her What could hava happened to the boat? If not able to board, she should have re turned. In boarding she should have displayed a light, as ordered, and then returned to report the state of the wreck. The last ever seen of the three men was when they pulled away from us. Not a word has been lieard from themj to this day, nor will it ever be known hpw they perished. ; Night brought a calm again, and I was so fagged out with the heavy work of the day that I went to sleep almost before I had finished the cold bite I got from the pantry. We understood from the Captain that he should cruise about for a day or J two more ln-hopes of falling m with the boat, but it was easy to see that: lie was, badly upset, and in the afternoon I smelled liquor about him very j strong. When he told us to go into the," pantry and forage for something to eat Ms voice was thick and his legs very weak. 3Iy mate was to stand watch the regular time and then, awaken me. Sometime in the night I was aroused by something and sat up and looked about me.jr The calm continued, and everythinjg was qujet, and so I lay down and slept again. It was daylight when I awoke again, and after a wash I got some .biscuit aad meat from tiie pantry and looked around for my mate. Not finding him afterja hunt of ten yminutcs I knocked at the open cabin door. - Receiving no response, I finally ventured in, and five rainut later I realized that I was entirely alone aboard he Josephine. Neither Captain nor sailor ouldbe found, nor was there the-Sslight- St clue to tell me hew or why thiey had disappfared. I did not give up until I had searched every possible place where they could have hidden away, and then I I sat down and let superstition and terror take such hold of - me for half a day that I liked to have gone crazy. It was only by calling up all my will power that I could prevent myself from leaping over the rail. After several hours, however, this feeling wore off, and I could view the situation with common sense. I wts alone, but it jvas a flat calm, and I turned into 2ie cabin and slept for six hours be fore I opened my eyes. Then it was to find that evening had come, and that the brig had been boarded by a boat from one of the mail "steamers plying between the big islahd and New Zealand. My explanations astonished - and astounded the men, and after I had been taken off to the steamer, and given all the dfetails to the Captain, he took the brig, in tow and ' continued his course for Sidney. There the story was toloT and retold, but with ; very little satisfaction to any one. A craft was sent out in search .of the los yawl and the hulk, but neithei could be found. The general idea at Sidney was that the Captain and sailor both got drunk that night, and somehow got overboard, but no one could even aruesa the calamity which befell the yawl. New York Sun. , 1 Thrilling Adventures of a Skipper. "Any man of this crew who attempts to desert this vessel leaves his dead body on the deck," was the determined warn ing shouted abdve the noise of the break ing sea by Captain Charles Hale on the dismasted schooner City of Philadelphia as his crew rushed toward the stern to es cape on a passing vessel. The schooner vhad sailed from Cardena? for Philadelphia laden with a large cargc of sugar, and is one of the many vessels owned by Philip Fitzpatrick. She is usually commanded by 'Captain Burton, but he was detained at home the last voyage by sickness in his family, and the vessel was placed in command of First Mate Hale, who acquitted himself with distinction in saving the vessel and crew during a violent gale and bringing them into port afterward when many masters would have deserted the valuable craft. Before the schooner had lost sight ol land sails were furled and preparation made for heavy weather. Within a few hours the vessel began to roll deep mtc the sea, besides straining heavily. This continned until the Cape Florida light bore ten miles distant, and the weather began to moderate. Again heavy weather was experienced in the shape of sudden and . violent squalls, blowing with the force of a hurricane. During one of the heaviest bursts of wind a terrible sea swept the decks, carrying overboard WillianCosgrove, .a sailor, of Bath, Me., taking away the mainmast . and foremast and breaking the mizzenmast fifteen feet above the deck, and leaving the vessel completely at the m6rcy of the sea. The cabin was filled with water, and the sea made a clean breach of the deck. This continued the next day, knocking the hatches off and letting the wafer into the cargo and crippling the entire 'crew. Temporary, masts made from booms and spars were rigged, and the schooner kepi on her course. One morning the barn Kelvin, of St. John, appeared in sight. and the. entire crew rushed to loose, the davits' and lower the boats. The ring leader was met at the cabin door by Cap tain Hale, who aimed a six-shooter at his head. Seeing the determination of Cap tain Hale the men at once crept into the forecastle, and, after a consultation, agreed not to attempt to desert the schooner. When the Kelvin hove to i call was made by permission of her mastei for volunteers to go aboard the Philadel phia, but the only response was from s young Irishman named Patrick Higgins. who came on board and worked until tht Philadelphia was docked at B. Hillmar & Co.'s shipyard. During the time that the vessel was dis masted, and up to her arrival at Hampton Roads, she was spoken ten times anc boarded by captains from many tugs, ont of the latter offering Captain Hale $30C cash for the privilege of charging tht owners $1000 for towing him into a pori of safety. Cincinnati Enquirer. Horsemanship of Indian Riders. . Fifty fine-looking young men, mounted upon ponies, drew ?.p before the tents. At a signal from the chief they began their evolutions with a loud yell. In a ' moment they disappeare'd over a-neighboring hill. Then there suddenly rose a mighty trampling of horseV feet, and they swept past again, so compact that I only saw a ball made of horses and men. Splitting in two, one body swept to the right and another to the left, and again they disappeared. Presently they charged ; each other in solid lines, and while the spectators waited breathlessly for the shock of collision the files skill fully opened to the right and left and the lines passed through the intervals with out touching. Now came the moment for displaying individual horsemanship. Some of the riders approached, each lying so close to his pony's back that nothing but the horse could be seen. Others stood erect upon their animais's backs. Some hung to the horse by one foot and one hand, so that their bodies were completely pro tected by those , of the ponies. These young warriors also threw objects upon the ground, and picked them up at full gallop, and drew bows and shot arrows from beneath the horses' neck. Some of the men exchanged horses while riding. Again a man would fall from his horse, as if wounded, and two others, riding up behind him, would take him by an arm and- a leg, swing him between their horses and Carry him off. This exhibi tion lasted nearly two hours, and at its close men and horses were completely exhausted.. All that evening the human performers lay in their lodges, while the Indian women brought them food and bathed them. Hone and StaNe. Cellnlar Cloth. The new cellular clothing now coming into use in Jbmglana is saxa to oe a suc- cess, it is woven out oi tne same matenaj as the common weaves of cloth, being simply, as' it3 name indicates, sloselj woven into cells, the network of which is covered over with a thin fluff. Its porous qaality allows the slow passing of the in side and outside air, giving time for th outside air to become of the same tem perature as the body, obviating all danger of catching colds and allowing vapors constantly exhaled by the body to pass off, thus contributing to health, and cleanli ness. The common objection to cotton clothing, that it is. productive of chills and colds, is removed if woven in this manner, and the invention can certainly be said tc be strictly' in accordance witn hygienic ! and scientific principles. TINY KINGDOM. WHAT MAT BE SEEN IS A VISIT TO THE ISIiE OP MAN. A Diversity of "Beautiful Scenery 14 Very Small Space Relic of an Ancient Scandi navian Custom. . It is! said that there is no other spot in the world where such diversity of scenery has been compressed into a small space as the Isle of man. It is a Liliputian king dom from its miniature constitution to its tiny rivers and waterfalls ; from its pigmy mountains to its little valleys. Every thing is abridged and petit, writes Marion Taylor jin the San Francisco CaU. Manx land lies midway between the ports of Belfast and Liverpool, its rocky coast con tinually washed by restless waves of the Irish Ba. Douglas, the principal town and port, was simply a fishing village not very many years ago, but now it can boast of London shops, fine hotels and boarding houses, and in the season there is such a mighty influx of visitors that many have to seek shelter in the bathing-machines for lac c of better accommodation. : Its beautiful bay is guarded at one extremity by Onchait Head and atthe other by that majesti promontory , Douglas Head, the view . from which is unsurpassed; while between the two on an islet of rock is Wordsv orth's wave-washed tower of refuge. Douglas owns some beautiful walks, notably one through the woods to the nunnery grounds, and another to Kirk Braddail, where lie both Druid and Scandinavian in the graveyard consecrated 1 by the.asiociations of 1000 years. At Cistleton, in the south of the island, ip the House of Keys, where Ae Manx Parliament is held ; it boasts also Castle ilushen,. which dates from the twelfth oentury, and which was the prison of the heroic Countess of Derby, who, as Sir Walter Scott tells us, was detained there after the island had succumbed to Cromwe l until the restoration. At the present time the castle is used as the Manx H use of Detention. Port Erin is a sweet spot,and from it may be obtained a fine view of that mountain-like rock, Bradda ilead. A sail round the Calf of Man insures for the tourist sublime scen ery, for it is there nature assumes her wildest i lood. The cliffs rise to giddy heights and wear all manner of weird 3hapes. The Stacks, the Eye, Sugar Leaf Rocks n4d the Thousla Rock, each stand . out as a Picture of superb coast scenery, i Spanish Head, a stupendous cliff on the ! mainlanq, with hidden rocks, sharp as ' knives, sjtretching out under the sea,is so i named from having been destructive to ' the warships of the Invincible Armada in 15SS. Ramsey, the second town of import ance on the island, has many attractions, among .otihers its proximity to the beauti ful Sulby Glen, and many prefer it to j Douglas on account of its quieter aspect, j LaxeyK a few miles distant from Ramsey, I is noted for the largest water-wheel in I the world, used for draining the lead j mines of that locality, and standing as it ' does, a miracle of mechanism, amid the most romantic and beautiful mountain j scenery, Snaef ell overtopping all ; it lives long in the memory. Then, how many I lovely gleps there are, with their wooded banks anijl fairy .waterfalls Glen Helen, with the music of Rhenass ravishing the eye and car, and Dhon Glen, with its rushing waters making melody -every- wnere. purely it is tne land ot poetry. A glance at the Isle of Man would be incomplete without a few words on the subject ofj what is called by the Manx .people Ty lwald Day, which means a f es tival atter ded by the population of the entire isla id. It is held on the 5th of July everj year, and is the lingering relic of a Scanc inavian custom, elsewhere ob solete for i great number of years. The main purpose of the gathering is to hear th i public promulgation of the laws of th : island from the lips of the governor-:; ;eneral, on Tynwald Mount, a mount hemmed in with hills in the ham let of St. , John, an out-of-the-way spot situate between Douglass and Peel. It is a quaint ceremony, in which those laws that have assed through the House of Keys durii g the past year and have re ceived the imperial consent are declared to the people. The law-giver reads the statutes fir; it in the English language and then in the native tongue of Mona, a dreadful dialect, which is still spoken there to a considerable extent. Outside the Mount there are all the characteristics of a country fair, for the rest of the day is devoted to fun and pleasantry the Manx peasantry evidently agreeing with the old proverb which tells us "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," and there, mingling feeling freely together, are seen the Peel fishermen, the farmers from the interibr, the pretty Manx girls, attired in I gaudy colors, the swarthy miners from Laxey, soldiers in their gay uniform, belonging to the detachment sent thithe for the day from the military headquarters; and last, but not the least, the good-humored tourists, fuy of delight and enjoyment. And thus we leave this happy people, content with their own beautiful isljand, their humble lives and primitive wjays. Whale's! 3Iilk for Consumptives. "Whaloid, Infallible Cure for Con sumption. Dispensing hours, 8 to 10 a. m. ; 3 to 5 p. m." On turning down Ox ford street my attention was attracted to this huge sign on the opposite side of the street, and also by the number of people flocking int the building. Entering the building, I was at a loss what to make of the matter, as all I could see was the crowd and a. large tank in the centre of the room. This tank was some seventy feet long, thirty feet wide and as I learned afterward, a aout thirty feet deep, having been constricted at a great expense. While waiting patiently for developments I found that the liquid was being lowered or let out byj some means. Soon a smooth black surfac appeared to -view, and as the water continued to recede I became aware that a! captive whale was on exhi bition. Surprised at not having to pay any admissioja fee, I was soon made aware of the reasoii. A framework had- been constructed n which the animal rested, and soon an expert milkman was engaged in extracting) for the consumptives whal oid (or whale's milk), which was greedily absorbed at jfive shillings per glass. London. Drugyislf Bulletin. Flowers 2000 Years Old Well Preserved. P. E. Newberry, of London, has ex hibited and explained a case of flowers, wreaths of kiarcissus, roses and ama ranths . predojmiaating, which had been taken from aii ancient Egyptian ceme tery. Though. 2000 years old they were in an admir&le state, of preservation. CURIOUS FACTS. Windmills are of great antiquity. The first paper mill in this country wat tarted in 1790 near Philadelphia. It is estimated that only one death it 10,)00,000 occurs from a railroad acci dent. '. : ': .. y : v .: ' -' " K- '- ;,r- . The Chinese, before the invention oi: paper, wrote with an iron tool upon thin boards or bamboo. -: . t . pjorpaji J32unbX aqV 'Xtrqof TrA Xraajj p uSiajc atfl ux papara sua pnvjn3 trt jrnn jaded sxif ouj, -snureSra jd 0x5 'sansm -ng Jq QSg sn a"tito sb no &uriuii jo dsodjnd oit joj pasra sum. osnnpBj parp tmsnrBuaIqsajj jo lopunoj sirj xou3 trqojf pro mss darns laqmaAOii xsu &rea 2IS TH41 ?I The first bottles were made of the skin of animals mostly goats.- Of this kind were the bottles spoken of in the Scrip ture. . - - . y -...,.vc- More than 1000 empty patent medicine bottles were found in the house of a rich bachelor who died at Enoxville, Perm., .lately. It is reported from Pennsylvania that black bears are more numerous in that State than they have been before for many years. ' . . , . . A boy was killed the other day in Sar Francisco, near the Palace Hotel, and the body permitted to lie 1 for hours on the sidewalk. . Skin bottles are still used in Southern Europe for the. transport of wine, and by different tribes of Africa and Asia for car rying water. - I For 600 years Rome existed without physicians. . Within 600 years after its first physician the Roman Empire had ceased to exist. It proves that it was a sun glass in the hands of a seven-year-old boy which caused the recent destructive fire at More land, near Chicago. . A gentleman, in painting the wreck of 4 garden boat on the Rhine, showed a lot of carrots floating down the stream, forgetting that carrots never float. A Georgia colored man is very fond of alligators as a food product. He captures the saurians, and after duly preparing them cures them as he does his hams. In his smokehouse at present five or six of these reptiles are hung up undergoing the smoking process. In Llandforr, a small village, in Wales, the village preacher makes shoes for a living. His annual stipend from the church is $40 a year.' It is not an un common thing to meet in different parts of the interior . of Wales clergymen who have learned a trade to eke out their in come. : - The Dayton (Pla.) Journal tells of an immense quantity of stranded jelly fish, which, ;in a continuous stretch of seven miles, lined the beach near Seabrook. An averagecounting gave sixty to' the hun dred feet, and the whole number could not have been less than 21,000. They were probably swept ashore by a storm. .Cossacks, in time of war, from eighteen to fifty, are bound to.-serve on horse back. They provide their armor at their own expense, and are armed with a lance twelve feet long,! a carbine, pistols and a saber. 1 Their horses are small, but swift and wiry. They are divided into polks (regiments), subdivided into hundreds, fifties and tens. They number about two million. Their language is Russian, and they adhere to the Greek creed. Lead Pencils. There; is. no lead pencil, and has been tone for fifty years. In old times a roll of lead was used to make marks on paper or rougher material : The name lead pencil came from the old notion that the products of the Cum berland mines, England, were lead, in stead of being plumbago or graphite, a carbonate of iron, capable of leaving a lead-colored mark. With the original lead pencil or slip, and with the earlier styles of the "lead" pencil made direct from the Cumberland mine, the wetting of the pencil was the preliminary of writing.- But since it has become a manu facture, the lead pencil is adapted by numbers or letters to each particular de sign. There are grades of hardness, from the pencil that may be sharpened to a needle point to one that makes a broad mark. Between the two extremes there are a number of gradations that cover all the conveniences of the lead pencil. These gradations are made by taking the original carbonate and grinding it and mixing it with a fine, quality of clay in different proportions, regard being had to the use of the pencil. The mixture is thorough, the mass is squeezed through lilies to form and size it, is dried, and en cased in its wood envelope. The wood used is red cedar, princi pally obtained from Florida. It is first thoroughly seasoned, sawed into strips, dried again, then cut -to the proper size for pencils. They are grooved by ma shinery, the leads are glued into the grooves, and the other half of the wood rfued on. It is a little odd that, though ttve call them lead pencils, yet there is lot a particle of lead in them. -Times-Democrat. Sea-Dogs. We associate this name with1 thost reteran3 of the merchant service and of the fishing squadrons whose appearance makes picturesque the seaport wharves and landings. If the suggestion of Mr. Wilfred Powell were acted upon, it would ive the term a new application and a Dew meaning. In writing of his ex plorations among the South Sea Islands, he says: ' ' There a fact well worth mentioning with respect to carrying dogs on board a vessel inslhese parts otherwise than the mere fact of their use as a watch. It is that they are very sensitive to an approach to land or reefs; and I found that when ever our dogs becran to sniff over the side it was a sure of there beina: a reef aot far off ; and not only that, but they will continue to do this until the" danger is a long way oS. They will detect the smell of a reef even at night whilst asleep, and will awake and run to the side of the vessel and whine, so that they are of as much use as a lead is in other places, for many reefs here are so steep, that the lead is no guide. How the Money Goes. Money goes, no one knows; Where it goeth, no oneshoweth; Here and there, everywhere Run, run; Dun, dun; ' Spend, spend; . . Lend, lend; " . Send, said: Flash to-day, short to-morrow; . Notes to pay, borrow, borrow; How it goes, no one knows; - Where it goeth, no one tnoweth- ' . - . To-Day. LIFE OR DEATH? . -if ' THE MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA OP SUSPENDED ANIMATIOX. The Difficulty of Distinguishing the Uving From the Dead Re xnarltable' Case of th . Faiir of Lahore. 'In'a letter to the New York-TrUum on the mysterious phenomena of catalepsy, the -writer says; f'-::i":': There is the case of Colonel Townsend. He was able of his . own volition to' simu late death so closely that ill the usual signs of -that change were present. Dr. George Cheyne witnessed this operation, and has recorded it in detail. , Colonel Townsend remained apparently dead for fully half an hour. On one occasion he performed the experiment in tie presence of three medical men, who found that respiration and pulsation gradually ceased until no trace of either could be detected. In fact, the three observers became con vinced that the man really was dead, and they were about to leave him, under that belief, when signs of life appeared,and he slowly revived. ; This may not have been catalepsy, but it was certainly a case of suspended animation. Dr. W, B. Carpenter says in his "Physiology:" "It is quite certain that in apparent cessation of all the vital (unctions may take place without that sntire loss of vitality which would leave the organism in the condition of a dead body, liable to be speedily disintegrated by the operation of chemical and physical agencies." It is also apparently a fact that such "apparent cessation of the vital functions" may continue for an indefinite period when the right condition exist. The best known illustration of this is the case of the Fakir of Lahore, who was buried for six' weeks, at the instance of Runjeet Singh, as attested by Sir Claude Wade, the British Resident at the Court of Loodhiana, in 1837. In this thor oughly authenticated case which, how ever, is but one of a class of similar facts known to Anglo-Indians and travelers the Fakir was first put into a linen bag, the bag was placed in a wooden box, fastened with a padlock, the wooden box was deposited in a cell in the middle of a square brick vault, every aperture of which but one was bricked up, while the remaining door was built up with mud above the lock, and fastened with the Rajah's seal. As a final precaution, a company of soldiers was detailed to guard the vault day and night, four sentries constantly patroling its four sides dur ing the whole period. When, at the ex piration of six weeks, the vault and the box were successfully opened, Sir Clande Wade, who, with Runjeet Singh, had entered the building, and taken their places close to the body, so as to see everything, this is what appeared" before them: "The servant then'began pour ing warm water over the figure; but as my object was to see if any fraudulent practices could be detected, I proposed to Runjeet Singh to tear open the bag and have a perfect view of the body before any means of resuscitatien were emoloyed. I accordingly did so ; and may here re mark that the bag, when first seen by us, appeared mildewed, as if it had been buried some time. The legs and arms of the body were shriveled and stiff, the face full, the head reclining. on the shoulder like that of a 'corpse. I then called to the medical gentleman who was attending me to - come down and inspect the body, which he did, but could dis cover no pulsation in the heart, the temples, or the arm. , There was, how ever, a heat about the region of the brain, which no other part of the body ex- 'hibited. "The servant then recommended bath ing him with hot water, and gradually relaxing his arms and legs from the rigid state in which they were contracted, Run jeet Singh taking his right and I his left leg, to aid by friction in restoring them to their proper action ; during which time the servant placed a hot whe'aten cake, abov,v.in inch thich, on the top of the hea1 a process which he twice 01 thrice1 renewed. He then pulled out ol his nostrils and ears, the wax and cotton with -jivhich they were. stopped; and after great ! exertion opened his mouth by in serting the point of a knife between his teeth, and, while holding his jaws open with his left hand, drew the tongue for ward with hia right in the course ol which the tongue flew back several times to I its curved position upward, in which it had originally been, so as to close the gullet. He then rubbed his eyelids with ghee (or clarified butter) for some seconds,' until he succeeded in opening them, when the: eyes1 appeared quite motionless and glazed. After the cake had been applied fpr the third time to the top of his head, his j body was .violently convulsed, the nostrils became inflated, respiration en sued, and the limbs began to assume a natural fulness; but the pulsation was still faintly perceptible. The servant then put some of the ghee on his tongue, and made him swallow it. lA few min utes afterward the eyeballs became di lated, and recovered their natural color, when the Fakir, recognizing Runjeet Singh sitting close to him, articulated, in a low, sepulchral tone, scarcely audible: 'Do you believe me now?' Runjeet Singh replied in the affirmative, and in vested the Fakir with a , pearl necklcce and superb pair of gold brccelets, and pieces of muslin and silk, and shawls forming what is called a khelat, such as is usually conferred by the Princes of India on persons of distinction. From the time of the box being opened to. the recovery of the voice, not more than half in hour could have elapsed! and in an other half hour the Fakir talked with myself and those about him freely, though feebly, like a sick person ; and we then left him, convinced that there had been no fraud, or collusion in the ex hibition we had witnessed." This case, so circumstantially narrated and so strongly authenticated, does not stand alone. Another case is recorded by Lieutenant Boileau, in which a man had been buried for ten days in a grave lined with masonry and covered with large slates of stone, and strictly guarded; and the subject told Lieutenant Boileau that he was ready to submit to an interment of a twelve-months' duration, i desired. In all these cases the appearance of the bodr when disinterred is described as feeing quite corp3e-like, and no pulsation could be detected at .the head or at the arteries. It may well be asked, in view of such possibilities of suspended anima tion, how physicians can be positive that death has occurred in cases of catalepsy or trance Dy any o trier indication man that of decomposition. I , The"latesi atrocity is a pocket edition oi the pigs in clover puzzle, bound in brass rnd a boat toe size of an ordinary watch HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. A GOOD HOtrSKKHSPZE. How can I tell her? " By her cellar; -Cleanly shelves and whitened wall I can gcess her , -By her dresser; By the back staircase acdhalL - . And with .plSaTure t Take her measure By the way she keeps her brooms. -I . . . jr uwueepuig At the keeping V Of her baSt and unseen rooms. By her'kitchen's air of neatness, And it general completeness, s Where' in cleanliness and sweetness The rose of order bloom&i f Jewish Messenger. CLEAXESO LACE. . , To clean! lace fill a bottle with cold water; draw a stocking tightly over it, securing both ends firmly. "Place the lace,, smoothly over, the stocking and tack closely. Put the bottle in a kettle of cold water containing a few shavings of soap, and place over the fire to boil. Rinse in several wafers and then drain and dry. When dry remove and place smoothly in a large book ' and press with , weights. : yery nice lacsn be made to look like new by this process. rWcdtington Star. BAG FOTi 4 TR A VKI.ING WRAP; This bag will be found very convenient in traveling, asseveral wraps not in use may be put into it and kept clean. A piece of coarse crash or holland forms the foundation, which may be ornamented vith a stripe, and any simple pattern may be worked between the stripes. Red Andalusian wool or coarse red marking cotton will be suitable for working the bag, which should be cut twenty-seven inches wide : and oae yard long. The ends are sewed together, and the edges ttirned over about three inches. The cross-stitch pattern is worked upon the irnea over part, anu me euge is uuuueu bv fringe. The handles are of the same material, worked" with a pattern, and are fixed to cross-stitch the bag by buttons and button-holes. YaiJcec Blade. 1 HOUSEHOLD ORNAMENTS. A very effective dining-room portiere can be made of the best quality of burlap. Across the top work, with coarse worsteds, a border in tapestry stitch, a design of fruit and leaves, using shades of brown, purple and orange, with a little bright olive green. If you prefer, the body of the curtain can be plain, with only a dadc and frieze, or a conventional design may be traced here and there, , doing away with the dado. - jSmall, low rockers of willow may be painted jet black and then decorated by a floral design. A bunch of red poppies is very effective and will not spil soreadily, as the more' delicate colors. Bright,-red ribbons, in several shades, are tidon the back and front legs of thchairs. It is well to varnish the chair pefoje ! painting the floral designs, using jWxl copal var nish, j . A chair painted in deep old gold, with a mass of purple and yellojv pansies on the seat, while the backisagcoratedwith a band of plush in shades oi purple and nea witn tnree snaaes 01 purple riDDon, would be a lovely ornament in any par lor. New York Star. THE TRUTH ABOUT MOTHS. I wish you'd put something in the paper to stop people believing that fit about moths," said a pretty woman ol philanthropic turn. With that dense 3tupidity characteristic of my sex I was obliged to ask what lie. "Why, they are always saying in the papers thi) is not necessary to do anythingv.4 'vip moths out of furs, but to wrap theltiin cotton cloths or in papers; that the moths will not gocthrough those fabries to get to their native diet of Russian sable , beneath. Well, now, that may be very true and interesting as a "scientific fact, but1 as advice for saving your sables it ii simply Tommyrot. I ought to know. I paid $100 for the information last year. I went and did my things up in cotton clotjh iast spring.' I don't know why. It would have been easier just to go and turn them into a trunk with a nickers worth of camphor, as I always had, but this! other was a new and sort of learned idea, and I took up with it. I suppose the eggs were already in my furs, but that is it; the eggs always will be in them. I thought I .beat them out but I evidently ' didn't, for the moths were,. thercr&yl suppose they did nof go thry jT cotton, but if I couldn't get :. th'eaHpt, neither can those other poor womenSJiat ire listening to the irresponsible journalist bowl No, you go put it in thata dime's worth of camphor is worth all the ento mological science in the world against moths. Just dump it in the trunk with yourj things and you are all right. -Neu York Graphic. RECIPES. Molasse3 Ginser Cakes One pint ol molasses, one tablespoon of lard, two tea spoons of soda in two-thirds of a cup ol "boiling water and two tablespoons of gin ger. I Mix quickly as possible, Roll thin and pake quick. Cinnamon : BunsIn making baking. powder Discuit taice some , 01 tne ao and roll three-quarters of an inch f ,di cut out with a biscuit cutter; sprea- fre; butter, tnen sugar ana cinnamon ; p t tin; inake a dent with finger in the gio and bake till a light brown in a rjfcoj Tapioca Jelly une-naii pinned oca, pne quart of water, the i n rr) 4nd of a. Ipmon . Soak tl over Inight in water; sweeten aht ror an flour in a ianna Keiue. nearly "done stir in the lemon and p into Imolds. Serve with cream snedJ ' ' Omelette Souffle Five egj?j, a qu? h f a pound of butter, four teblespooripj Dt suear, one 01 nour. jux t Ac last the stiff froth of the whiVv j tares.! Melt a piece of butto aa pan, pour in the mixture, and with1 nroad knife until done. SDruuTie with lemon juice and sugar, or serve with pre 1 serves. . '(e Apple Custard A way to prepare ap; 1 them.! For a quart of grated apples tii in a quarter of a pound of melted tjutte and half a pound ol sugar. licat tne y olks and, whites of eight eggs; separate ly; stir in the whites the last .thing, and bake like custard in a deep dish lined with puff paste. . . Rich Pudding Mix apples, chopped, me arid one-half pints of milk, ten ounces jf bread crumbs, ten ounces of raisins (or jurrants or both), six eggs, half of a rrated . nutmeg, the grated peel of a iemonl a quarter of a pound of sugar and 1 small teaspoonf ul of salt,. Mix 11 thor oughly together, putting in the fruit last, md steam for four or five hours in a could. This makes a largo irodding; aalf the quantity will answer t a small t 1 t 1 4 . f - ; -V - -f" 1 1 -J ?
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